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Back and Forth


Back and Forth

 

We only want you to be happy

 

If you don't do this you'll never get anywhere

 

We love you

 

I don't trust you

 

What do you all mean?

What do I need to do?

 

How

Do 

I

Please

You?

 

Because I can't

Nothing I try does it

Nothing can stop this plague of doubts

 

I'm trapped in these bars of my own doubt

and you just build them up.

 

Help me, save me, 

Acknowledge things I do right

Please?

 

Because my whole life has been devoted to pleasing you

and

it

never

seems

to

work 

 

We're proud of you

 

You're pissing all this away

 

 

 

 

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